In case you were wondering how it's going in Greece, well, people it's bad. If anyone needed to leave the EU it's Greece, but Alexis Tsipras is a lot like Barack Obama -- coming into office with a burst of hope and a clear mandate from the people (a mandate, I feel compelled to add, that the people gave Mr. Tsipras again in a national referendum on yet another lousy "bailout"), but he's completely bollocksed it up, and having seen this play before, I'm not willing to consider that he's playing a long game.

Alec Mento's *Penny Rants* books help you relive the horrors of the last 14 years of American politics, but with an improbable optimism and (per Kirkus Reviews) an "acerbic flair" and "a talent for distilling complex ideas into quickly digestible parts." And you can only get these books at Blunt Instruments; click the photo above (or type blunteye.com into your browser) to get them!